Too freakish for words!!

[tramalady45]

I just had to share this with my fellow ER/Trauma nurses. This is unreal. What are people thinking???

SCROTUM SELF-REPAIR

by William A. Morton, Jr. MD

taken from: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality July 1991

One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse.

She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other than

to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's troubles." The patient,

about 40, was pale, febrile, and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say

as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and

black-and-blue scrotal skin.

After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove

his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul-smelling stained gauze

wrapped about his scrotumm which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit

and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood,

extended down the left scrotum.

Amid the matted hair, edematous skin, and various exudates, I saw some

half buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several

days earlier, he replied, he had injured humself in the machine shop where he

worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun.

The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up

wallboard.

We x-rayed the patient's scrotum to locate the staples, admitted him to

the hospital, and gave him tetorifice antitoxin, broad-spectrum antibacterial

therapy, and hexachlorine sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning. The

procedure consisted of exploration and debridement of the left side of the

scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were

trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed and was missing. The

stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and

the vessels ligated properly, though not much of a hematoma was present.

Through-and-through Penrose drains were sutured loosely in site, and the skin

was loosely closed.

Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital

less than a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me. An

unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his

co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of

masturbating by holding his member against the canvas drive belt of a large

floor-based peice of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he

lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum

suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive belt, he was

thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his

left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound

closed and resumed work. I can only assume he abandoned this method of

self-gratification.

[mysticalwaters1]

wow....

[Cute_CNA, CNA]

I've heard of this before. :chuckle

[Someday-C.R.N.A.]

OW. :stone

:uhoh21:

[suzy253, RN]

OMG!!!:stone

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Yikes! :stone

[DonnaRN]

...(Sorry, at a loss for words!)

[DusktilDawn]

Oooouuuuccchhh

Guess we know what he won't be doing at work anymore!!!!

[Imafloat, BSN, RN]

Ouchie!

[Annor]

YIKES! That is nasty.......ouch!!

Annor

I just had to share this with my fellow ER/Trauma nurses. This is unreal. What are people thinking???

SCROTUM SELF-REPAIR

by William A. Morton, Jr. MD

taken from: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality July 1991

One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse.

She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other than

to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's troubles." The patient,

about 40, was pale, febrile, and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say

as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and

black-and-blue scrotal skin.

After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove

his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul-smelling stained gauze

wrapped about his scrotumm which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit

and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood,

extended down the left scrotum.

Amid the matted hair, edematous skin, and various exudates, I saw some

half buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several

days earlier, he replied, he had injured humself in the machine shop where he

worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun.

The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up

wallboard.

We x-rayed the patient's scrotum to locate the staples, admitted him to

the hospital, and gave him tetorifice antitoxin, broad-spectrum antibacterial

therapy, and hexachlorine sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning. The

procedure consisted of exploration and debridement of the left side of the

scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were

trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed and was missing. The

stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and

the vessels ligated properly, though not much of a hematoma was present.

Through-and-through Penrose drains were sutured loosely in site, and the skin

was loosely closed.

Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital

less than a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me. An

unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his

co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of

masturbating by holding his member against the canvas drive belt of a large

floor-based peice of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he

lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum

suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive belt, he was

thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his

left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound

closed and resumed work. I can only assume he abandoned this method of

self-gratification.

[z's playa]

Poor guy. Kind of sad.

Z

[Nurseinthemaking]

OMG, that made my stomache turn. Can you imagine how felt mentally and physically. Ugh...